After uninstalling Linux on my dual-boot I now have 22 Gb of unallocated space. How do I recover that? With disk management I only see it is unallocated, but cannot allocate or format.
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After uninstalling Linux on my dual-boot I now have 22 Gb of unallocated space. How do I recover that? With disk management I only see it is unallocated, but cannot allocate or format.
You need to turn it into a partition... then you can format it. In disk management, right click on the space and launch the wizard.
That is the problem, I only can click on 'properties', no wizard. I have administrator rights.
NooNoo must be away - she normally recommends you start in Safe Mode as Administrator (not 'an' administrator but THE administrator).
I could be wrong.
:)
Don't need to start in safe mode... but may be need to logon as Administrator.... do you have administrative rights?
If you click on the unallocated space, then right click - do you get a context menu? If not, click on Action menu near the top left hand side.
Is the disk listed as basic or dynamic?
I'll login as administrator. Thank you.
A good write-up for reference:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_07.htm
Even as Administrator I can only click on 'properties'. Apparantly my W2K installation is not as it should be? More ideas? Thanks.
As it is a dual-boot system I tried it in Linux, bur also there the space is not accesible...
What about the action menu?
Is it listed as basic or dynamic in the lower half of the screen?
Thank you for your quick reply! I cannot see anything like basic or dynamic if I use the action menu.
Ifyou go into device manager and right click on your drive and then click properties, volumes, populate it says what it is (at least on XP Pro system).
W2K here, it doesn't show volumes etc.
w2k does show volumes...
basic or dynamic is next to the disk number this is the disk management screen
Sorry, now I see it (one picture tells more than etc.). It's basic.
OK, so what do you get when you go into properties?
the exact steps to use disk management If this does not do it, then the linux partition is not as unallocated as windows thinks....
you have two unformatted partitions of 7gb and 502mb... or at least, they appear to be unformatted. If they are empty, remove the partition on the 502mb and see if it adds to the unallocated space. If it doesn't linux did something that windows doesn't understand.
These two partitions are the Linux partitions.
so you need to boot back into linux to manage this unallocated space.
Linux also doesn't recognize it...
time to run chkdsk /r ...
Did chkdsk /r, no changes. I'll have a look from the Linux side
Panhead, have you tried any disk partitioning utilities like Ranish Partition Manager Acronis Disk Director, Partition Magic, etc.?
No, not yet. Next step. Thank you for your quick answers, I'll keep you informed.
I managed to recover the unallocated space with Partition Manager.
Was gonna suggest partition magic, ive had this problem in the past. I think its down to windows not recognising the EXT2/3 format that linux uses, but partition magic can. Glad ya got it sorted
Thank you. The Linux format was ReiserFS, but that is also not recognised.